If I was not aware of your knowledge and of your energy, my friend, I would not hesitate, under the pledge of secrecy, to tell you everything about it.

"Though we hesitate to accept a statement of fact from a man of Simon Craft's self-confessed character, yet the corroborative evidence seems to warrant a belief in the general truth of his story.

"I don't know why you should hesitate to speak quite openly," she rejoined steadily.

And if she should develop any untoward symptom, for Heaven's sake don't hesitate to send for me!

He did not dream that such a man as Sinclair would hesitate at a killing.

It cannot hesitate to destroy a bridge because that bridge cost five hundred thousand dollars.

And it does not hesitate.

Scarcely any artist will hesitate in the choice between money and attention; and it was primarily for that last and better sort of pay that the short stories of the 'nineties were written.

He seemed to hesitate.

Well, he did not hesitate to say that he had been a small man himself, and began in a very small way.

And I'm going to tell you that I wouldn't hesitate to marry you if I loved you.

Again she seemed to hesitate.

In Tennessee no such effort was made, but the leaders of thought did not hesitate to express their horror of slavery and their desire that it might be abolished.

But in the present judgment there is so profound a depth, that I hesitate not to call him blessed whosoever is not surprised and offended by it.

Two councillors, Dubourg and Dufaure, spoke so warmly of reforms which were, according to them, necessary and legitimate, that their adversaries did not hesitate to tax them with being Reformers themselves.

Coligny had barely half as many; but he did not hesitate to attack, and on the 13th of June, 1570, he was so near victory that the road was left open before him.

When the Princess Marguerite was asked if she consented, she appeared to hesitate a moment; but King Charles IX.

Meanwhile Charles IX. was beginning to hesitate.

South winds jostle them, Bumblebees come, Hover, hesitate, Drink, and are gone.

The school was select to such an extent, that not more than a dozen pupils were admitted to its privileges; and so private, that, outside of that number, its name was not known except among its graduates; and there were reasons why they should hesitate to spread its reputation abroad.

Do not hesitate to read with them these stories of the ancients, because there may be the commingling of legend with history, of myth with fact.

You do not hesitate to read them the story of William Tell, although there are woven into it the elements of a very old and wide-spread sun-myth.

" "What is this?" The boys hesitate.

I should not at any time hesitate to call all the teachers into an adjoining room, leaving the school alone for half an hour, and I should be confident that, at such a time, order, and stillness, and attention to study would prevail as much as ever.

Not doubting that our late war with Mexico was just on the part of the United States, I did not hesitate when charged by the Constitution with its prosecution to exercise a power common to all other nations, and Congress was duly informed of the mode and extent to which that power had been and would be exercised at the commencement of their first session thereafter.